Re: PG on Win2K

Hi,
We have the exact same issue here. It is very well possible, we have it
running (win9x/ME/NT4/W2K/XP).
Cygwin is required, but you can make a minimal install.
We use NSIS installer to
1) Let the user decide where to install
2) copy package all the cygwin+postgresql files in one SETUP.EXE, and
3) do some postinstall scripts.
After this everything is set up. Click start.bat and go.
Or even better: you can do the same thing as NT services.

We also have made a "cygwin-postgresql control panel", which looks a bit
like msSQL's to start/stop/backup/vacuum/schedule/change-database.

Our installer bundle will be released as freeware/applicable licences for
pg/cygwin when we think has been tested.

We also stresstested cygwin. With our app its stable, but the is a 60
concurrent user limit to the postgres-cygwin-windows combination.

A native postgres for windows version, to be released into the source tree,
is currently under developement however. No release date yet as i understand
it.

Regards, J Hondius

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]Namens Nikhil G. Daddikar
Verzonden: vrijdag 30 augustus 2002 10:59
Aan: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Onderwerp: [CYGWIN] PG on Win2K

Folks,

Some background: our application is dependent on Postgresql and we are
extremely happy with it. We've been running it Linux servers.

However, our target customers are mostly Win2k and are not expected to be IT
savvy nor have any IT personnel. We are therefore trying to make it a
painless install, and other than PG, we have everything figured out that
would make it as simple as unzipping and starting the server.

My questions:
1. is there a simple way for pg to be installed on win2k machines?
2. Is cygwin required?
3. Can we just bundle all the software so that the end user doesn't have to
do all the work and also we have a controlled environment?

The aim is to make it really easy.

*Any* help will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
-n.

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